TY - JOUR
T1 - A survey on Needlestick Injuries and related occupational factors among the Nurses
TT - بررسی آسیب ناشی از ورود ناخواسته سوزن به بدن پرستاران و خطرات مرتبط با آن
JF - jhsw
JO - jhsw
VL - 1
IS - 2
UR - http://jhsw.tums.ac.ir/article-1-21-en.html
Y1 - 2012
SP - 31
EP - 38
KW - Needlestick injury
KW - Nurses
KW - Healthcare worker
KW - Occupational exposure
N2 - Introduction: Needlestick (NSI) is a known serious treat and occupational exposure among health care workers especially nurses. Since nurses are the biggest part of healthcare workers, and considerable percent of NSI are preventable, we decided to determine frequency of NSI and some related occupational factors among a group of them. . Methods and Materials: This cross-sectional project was conducted among all the nurses (340 nurses with at least one year work experience) in Babol and Amirkola educational and private hospitals (in north of Iran). The data were gathered by means of a tailor-made data collection sheet including personal information and some occupational effective factors, during autumn and winter. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistical indexes and Chi-square test. .Results: Our result showed that the relative frequency of NSI among the nurses group (the mean age of nurses was 33.8±7.7 years old and the mean work experience was 10.3±8 years) was 59.7 percent. Chi-square test result indicated that there were significant differences between NSI in different groups of some personal and occupational factors including age, years of experience, training condition, and needle recapping(p
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